A Troubling Interventionist Consensus

August 08, 2007

Responding to a recent Washington Post op ed by Robert Kagan and Ivo Daalder, David Rieff and Christopher Preble question the capacity of the foreign policy community to rescue America from Iraq and other debacles so long as they remain enthralled by military intervention.

The article appears in its entirety at The National Interest Online.

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=15128


David Rieff is the author of At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention. Christopher Preble is director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute.

Posted by coalition at August 8, 2007 08:03 AM

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